―You is feeling like you was lost in this bush, boy? You says: It is
puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a
stump of a beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest he all
means. Gee up, girly!‖ (112.3-6)

―look at this pre-pronominal funferal, engraved and
retouched and edgewiped and puddenpadded, very like a whale‘s egg
farced with pemmican, as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full
trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that
ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia‖(120.9-14).

Standard Average European (SAE) is a concept introduced by Benjamin Whorf to group the modern Indo-Europeanlanguages of Europe. Whorf argued that these languages were characterized by a number of grammatical similarities, which made them different from many of the world's other languages. His point was to argue that the disproportionate degree of knowledge of SAE languages biased linguists towards considering grammatical forms to be highly natural or even universal, when in fact they were peculiar to the SAE language group.

In Whorf's most famous example he contrasted what he called the SAE tense system which contrasts past, present and future tenses with that of Hopi, which Whorf analyzed as being based on a distinction not of tense, but on distinguishing things that have in fact occurred (arealis mood encompassing SAE past and present) as opposed to things that have as yet not occurred, but which may or may not occur in the future (irrealis mood). The accuracy of Whorf's analysis of Hopi tense has later been a point of controversy in linguistics.

Alexander Gode, who was instrumental in the development of Interlingua, characterized this language as "Standard Average European".[1]The Romance, Germanic, and Slavic control languages of Interlingua are reflective of the language groups most often included in the SAESprachbund.